Trump Budget Has Huge $2 Trillion Dollar Math Error

“A New Foundation for American Greatness” was built on quicksand, and the president’s defenders are happy to keep shoveling it.

President Donald Trump’s newly unveiled budget contains a massive accounting error that uses the same money twice for two different purposes. Based on its supersized projections of 3 percent GDP, the president’s budget forecasts about $2 trillion in extra federal revenue growth over the next 10 years, which it then uses to pay for Trump’s “biggest tax cut in history.”

But then it also uses that very same $2 trillion to balance the budget.